The Italian Language: The Wild Story of the Beautiful Language

🇮🇹 The Italian language we know and love today almost never existed! In this video, I share the heroic origin story of modern Italian, why one particular dialect was chosen as the standard, and the many reasons the language is worth learning. Buckle up: it's a wild ride from vulgar Latin, to Dante devotees, to parliamentary fist fights!

Special thanks to Stefano from ‪@linguaEpassione‬ for recording with me. You can check out his channel here 👉🏼    / linguaepassione  

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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Italian’s Origin Story
0:36 - Italian Languages & Dialects
1:30 - Before Italian
2:32 - Italian is Born
6:25 - Language Wars
7:22 - Modern-Day Italian
8:39 - What Countries Speak Italian?
9:05 - Italian Migrations
9:43 - What Does Italian Look & Sound Like?
12:56 - Why Learn Italian?

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